Briefs: Stories for the Palm of the Mind
Year of Publication |
2010
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Publication Type |
Short Stories
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Number of Pages or Episodes |
155 p.
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Language |
English
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Contributors |
Author:
John Edgar Wideman |
Publisher |
Lulu Press
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City |
Raleigh, NC
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Abstract |
Microstories or flash fiction that revisit life in Pittsburgh's Homewood neighborhood and move to many other settings. “The characters and compass points range from Darfur to Manhattan, from Pittsburgh to Paris,” reads the dust jacket, “but the true coordinates these stories chart are the psychic and emotional fault lines beneath our common ground.”
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Author Biography |
John Edgar Wideman (1941- ), raised in Pittsburgh's Homewood and Shadyside neighborhoods, graduated from Liberty Elementary and Peabody High School. A star basketball player, he was all-Ivy League at the University of Pennsylvania before winning a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford. At the Iowa Writers' Workshop he earned a MFA. Wideman is the winner of many literary awards and a professor at Brown University.
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Time |
2010s
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